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ECON 306: Introduction to Econometrics

Econometrics Websites

Selected Sites:  

The Econometric Society
The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics.

Econometrics — Open Access Journal
Econometrics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on econometric modeling and forecasting, as well as new advances in econometrics theory, and is published quarterly online by MDPI. Open Access means the journal is free for readers, and offers free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted in 2014.

EconPapers
EconPapers is the part of RepEc that collects working papers in economics available on the Internet. There are over 150,000 downloadable working papers drawn from many hundreds of series from academics working in institutions from around the world. There are also over 250,000 downloadable journal articles, as well as smaller collections of books, book chapters, and software items.

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
FRED is an online database consisting of more than 212,000 economic data time series from 62 national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data. In essence, FRED helps users tell their data stories.

Federal Reserve System Economic Data
Economists at the Federal Reserve Board conduct innovative research on a broad range of topics in economics and finance. In addition to presenting their research to policymakers, Board economists share their research at academic conferences and publish it in peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly outlets. This site contains working papers, publications, other research, and data sets.

National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER)
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research in a scientific manner, and without policy recommendations, among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict future trends. We set international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.